According to the Handbook of Texas, of the 23 sugar producers in Brazoria County in 1849, the Patton plantation was the fifth most productive. It produced 275,000 pounds of sugar and 22,000 ...

WASHINGTON-ON-THE-BRAZOS — The highlight of my overnight Texas history trip to Washington-on-the Brazos and nearby Brenham was a “living history farm,” the Barrington Plantation at ...

It almost reads like satire: A white woman launches a crusade to rid plantation gift shops of books she deems inappropriate. Well, this is Texas in 2023, y’all.

The managers and guides now tell a wider story of life on the Varner-Hogg Plantation in West Columbia, Texas. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800 ...

Out in a rural stretch of Texas northwest of Houston, Waller County was born of plantations, cotton fields and slavery. More than a century ago, state lawmakers planted there the state's first ...

In the beginning, the Father of Texas himself had his doubts. Of course, Mexican Texas already existed when Stephen F. Austin took over his late father’s colonizing efforts in 1821, but as one ...

Grim History Author traces Texas prison system from its roots in plantation slavery By Michael King, Fri., Aug. 20, 2010 ...

Forty-eight sets of remains believed to have been buried between 1878 and 1910 have been exhumed from an unmarked cemetery in Fort Bend County.